Thomas G. Stevenson

Thomas Greely Stevenson (3 February 1836-10 May 1864) was a Brigadier-General of the US Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Thomas Greely Stevenson was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1836, and he rose from private to major in the state militia at the start of the American Civil War in 1861. On 3 December 1861, he took command of a volunteer regiment of the US Army, fighting at Roanoke and New Bern in North Carolina; his regiment was not called back to Virginia, instead serving under John G. Foster in North Carolina. He fought in the 1862 Goldsborough Expedition and the 1863-January 1864 operations around Charleston, South Carolina, and he took over the 1st Division of the IX Corps of the Army of the Potomac under Ambrose Burnside. He led his division at The Wilderness and the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House in 1864, and he was shot in the head by a sharpshooter on 10 May 1864.